The Artist
Rohit
Making things that feel like something.
I work across painting, sculpture, and photography — not because I can't choose, but because each medium asks a different question. The canvas asks about colour and time. The clay asks about touch and weight. The camera asks about what we see versus what we notice.
I grew up between cities, which gave me a certain restlessness and a habit of looking closely at the places I passed through. That restlessness is still in the work — a tension between settling and moving, between the permanent and the provisional.
Process
How the work gets made
Observation
Everything begins with looking — at light, at texture, at the way a space holds silence. I keep sketchbooks, not as finished drawings but as a record of attention.
Material
I choose the medium after the idea has formed, not before. The question dictates the material. Sometimes that means oil. Sometimes ceramic. Sometimes a lens.
Time
Most works take months. I return to them, leave them, return again. Finished means the work has stopped asking me to change it — not that I've run out of ideas.
Philosophy
Art is not decoration. It is a record of someone paying attention.
I make work for people who want to live with something that continues to reveal itself — a painting that looks different at noon than at dusk, a sculpture that changes with the season of light.
I am not interested in art that explains itself completely on first encounter. The best works I know are still surprising me years later.